Improved head-best



H. c. HUNT, 0F Anson-ILLINOIS.

'Letters Patent No. 77,043, dated Amz'l A21. 1868; antedateol April l0, 1868.

rurnovs'n HEAD-REST.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, II. C. HUNT, of Amboy, in the eountyot' Lee,-`and State of Illinois, have invented eerl tain new and useful Improvements in Passenger Head-Rests; and I hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description ot' the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings which form apart of these specications.l

Figure 1 isa perspective-view, representing' the rest while in use, when attached to a common chair.

Figure 2 represents all the parts, in their most compact form, when not in use, but as carried in the pocket or elsewhere.

Figure 3shows the standard, with its holes, t, and hooks, c and cZ, attached.

Figures 4 and 5 represent the hooks a' and e, cl with itsrstuds' e and rubber m, and e with its lips s.

To enable those skilled in manufacture the more clearly to understand my invention, I will proceed to describe it as follows, viz:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View, representing a man who may h e waiting at a railroad-station for the cars, and has 1applied his head-rest to the back of-a common chair, and is now enjoying the benefits of it. A is the pad or cushion, composed of a piece of wire, hent in any desirable form. The-ends being brought together and embraced with a piece of brass or other material are. solderen/Litho brass forming an eye, 1', which receives the pvot on the ends ofthe fork C, there being alcorresponding eye at eachend of the pad A. The wire or framework is then covered with any suitable material to form an veasy support for the head rof the occupant.-

Fig. 2 represents the standard, B, with a series of holes, h, (by which it may be adjusted in height,) its stub, g, and end,f, which is -bent at right angles with the standard, and has a star-shaped perforation, by which means the rest or pad may be set at any desired angle, horizontally, and held securely byy means of the square on the shank of the fork C. y The hooks d and e are attached, and the pad A, with its fork C, placed between them, with the lower extremity of the shank on the fork C passing through a hole in-the hook d. The hook e is then slipped up till it embraces tholower edge of the cushion A, and thus holds it in the position in which it-is carried in the pocket or elsewhere. v l

Fig. 3 shows the front side of the standard B, with -its holes h, which have a short slot extendingupward from-each, and the studs e are passed through the holes h, and the shanks of the studs (being smaller than the faces of them) are slipped into the slots, and the hook d, to which the studs are attached, is thus securely held to the standard B. The hook e is attached to the standard bymcans of the lips e, which merely embrace th'e edges'ofthe standard, and may be slipped at pleasure to anyl desired point for attaching the'rcst to chair or scttee-backs, and the hook e may be readily removed when the rest is to be applied to a car-seat or upholstered chair, the hook ci' holding the rest in position until the occupant leans against `the standard, as shown-in iig. I.

Figfl represents the hook d, with its studs e, and lining, m, which is made of rubber, er any suitable material, to prevent the hook from marring the rail on( the oar-scat or back of a chair or settee.

Fig. 5 shows the bool( c attached to a section of the standard B, with the lips s of the hooi: e embracing the edges of the said section of the standard 13the whole being constructed ot'any suitable material, and arranged, as shown and:described, so as to c'onstitute'a compact, cheap, adjustable, andiself-adju'sting portable pocket head-rest fol-passengers, invalids, or others. l v

The fork C inelines forward, (as will be seen in fig. 1,) for the purpose of'securing a greater degree of adjustahility, as the pad A may oe thrown forward or backward, (by reversing thefor-k 0,) a distance correspun-ding to' the inclination of the fork. v

Having thus described my invention, I do not claim broadly a head-rest, for such articles have long been in use, but Y What I do claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The passenger or invalid head-rest, herein shown and described, composed of the pad'A, perforated standard B, inclinedV fork C, and hook-s and e, when constructed and arranged in the manner shown and described.

' H. c. HUNT.

Witnesses:

GEORGE WQ MINGLE,

ALBERT H. MnRnrFInLD. 

